Skytec Beta 1 Lightweight Palm-Coated Touchscreen Grip Gloves

The Skytec Beta 1 Lightweight Palm-Coated Touchscreen Grip Gloves are super lightweight work gloves that feature good levels of mechanical resistance for a glove of their weight. Their design makes them a superb choice for manual tasks that require sensitive touch, dexterity or precision in your fingertips, without leaving your fingers themselves exposed.

What Kind Of Protection Do These Gloves Offer?

These super lightweight gloves feature exceptional abrasion resistance, for long lasting protection in a variety of handling tasks. They also feature a middling level of tear resistance and some cut and puncture resistance. While they shouldn't be used for tasks that hold abnormal cut or puncture risk, they can be relied upon to keep hands safe and comfortable in a range of precision manual tasks.

What Is the Construction of these gloves?

With a machine knitted nylon/spandex blend liner and a seamless construction, these gloves offer the very best in comfort, dexterity and sensitivity. They include NFT nitrile foam dipped hands for excellent grip in a variety of conditions, including oily and wet conditions.

Take advantage of the precision grip from Skytec Beta Gloves

What Conditions Are these Gloves Appropriate for Use In?

By channelling fluid away from the palms, the NFT nitrile foam coating of these gloves helps to maintain a firm grip regardless of conditions. The Beta gloves are appropriate for use in dry, wet or oily conditions.

Features of the Skytec Beta PU Gloves

In order to offer touch and dexterity alongside robust protection, these gloves feature the following:

• NFT nitrile foam coating – maintains firm grip in dry, wet or oily conditions
• Nylon/ spandex liner – offers superior fit, sensitivity, comfort and dexterity
• Full hand design – offers strong abrasion resistance to the whole hand
• Thin 18gg liner – is extremely lightweight for unwavering dexterity
• Trademark Sanitized finish – has antimicrobial qualities to maintain freshness within the glove
• Elasticated wrist – ensures a firm and comfortable fit to a variety of hands
• Tricolore red colour coding – is easily visible and helps to identify gloves quickly on sight

What Is the Tricolore Colour Coding System?

Skytec utilise a standardised colour coding system to help you select appropriate levels of cut resistance quickly and easily on site. The system is as follows:

• Red gloves: level 1 cut resistance
• Amber gloves: level 3 cut resistance
• Green gloves: level 5 cut resistance

These red gloves feature only minimal cut protection, and shouldn't be used for work where you expect to encounter sharp objects or edges.

Are These Gloves Latex Free?

These gloves use a nitrile foam palm-dip. This makes them latex free and allows those with latex allergies to wear these gloves without discomfort.

Applications of the Skytec Beta PU Gloves

The Skytec Beta PU Gloves are designed for applications where precision and dexterity is valuable. They also feature a strong grip in dry or oily conditions which opens them to a range of uses. Typical industrial applications include:

• Automotive
• Construction
• Logistics
• Maintenance
• Manufacturing
• Oil and gas
• Pharmaceutical
• Transport
• Utilities
• Warehousing and distribution

Testing of the Skytec Beta PU Gloves

EN 388 (Mechanical Protection)

• EN388: 4121X

EN407 (Heat Resistance)

• EN407: X1XXXX

Sizing of the Skytec Beta PU Gloves

The Skytec Beta PU Gloves are available in five sizes. To identify the best fit for you, start by measuring the length of your hand and the circumference of your palm at the knuckle (as seen below). Once you have these measurements, you can compare them to the below sizing table to find your glove size. 

Documentation for the Skytec Gloves

• Product Data Sheet
• Declaration of Conformity

Delivery

This item will be dispatched by Royal Mail, DPD courier or UPS courier.

The estimated delivery time for this item is usually 1-3 working days when ordered before 14:00, Monday to Friday (excluding Bank Holidays).

UK Delivery Charges

Certain orders delivered to the UK are subject to a delivery charge; refer to the table below for more information. Please note that all values are listed exclusive of VAT.

What is EN 388?

You might have noticed that this product adheres to EN standard EN 388. EN standards ensure that the product you are buying meets the safety standards of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), the highest standards organisation recognised by and working on behalf of the European Union. To pass any EN standard, a PPE product must undergo some of the most rigorous safety tests around.

There are many EN standards that our gloves adhere to. However, the EN standard that we’re concerned about here is EN 388. EN 388 stands for Mechanical Resistance, and informs you of your gloves' resistance to abrasion, cuts, tears and punctures.

How Do I Read the EN 388 Score?

Simply speaking, the higher the score that this product achieves, the better the product will be at resisting that hazard. Products will score between Level 0 and Level 4 for abrasion, tears and punctures, and if they weren’t tested for that hazard you will see N/A written instead of a number.

Cuts are a little different and, with the EN 388 standard rewritten in 2016, it means that gloves will either be tested to cut resistance or ISO cut resistance (sometimes called TDM cut resistance). Gloves tested to cut resistance will score between Level 0 and Level 5, and gloves tested to ISO cut resistance will achieve a score between Level A and Level F with the higher letter offering better cut protection.

Where Can I Find Out More?

This is just a brief overview of EN standard EN 388 so you know where you are standing. For further information, you can see the Introductory EN 388 Blog in our Knowledge Centre.